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Courses for Adults > Focus on French Skills

French with TV5

TV250 (Level B1)
TV350 (Level B2)

Improve your French language skills with French channel TV5! Newscasts, documentaries and movies of francophone countries (France, Belgium, Switzerland, Canada, the Caribbean, and Africa) will be used to help you understand French as it is spoken in the real world. The variety of topics you will be asked to comment on will widen your vocabulary and increase your confidence in your speaking abilities.

In this course you will:

  • Improve your listening comprehension
  • Learn to recognize and distinguish the various accents and speaking patterns of the various Francophone countries
  • Broaden your vocabulary, especially as relates to everyday situations
  • Develop your speaking skills through conversation on the programs viewed
  • Discover the various aspects of the Francophone cultures
  • Familiarize yourself with issues of debate and types of entertainment in contemporary French society

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